THE VERGE Friday September 2, 2022
Meta is having troubles. So is Twitter. And now The Verge reports that Snapchat’s financially struggling owner Snap is laying off 20 percent of its employees and discontinuing at least six products. Beside dropping its Pixy drone camera, Snap is closing down that division that produced exclusive short shows with celebrities and other influencers, as well as its social mapping app, Zenly, and its music creation app, Voisey. Many social media companies are grappling with the prospect of a recession. but Snap, like Twitter, is especially vulnerable to economic shocks because it relies heavily on one main way of making money, adds The New York Times. Read the full Story >>
The New Yorker Friday September 2, 2022
Dagestan is one of Russia’s poorest regions. It is also the region that has lost the most men to the war in Ukraine, notes The New Yorker, which features a report from Magnum photographer Nanna Heitmann and writer Keith Gessen. The army executing Vladimir Putin’s “special operation” features a striking number of young men from the ethnic republics—a fact partly explained by economic inequality and lack of opportunity in many of the areas outside the wealthy metropolises of Moscow and St. Petersburg, writes Gessen. Read the full Story >>
KICKSTARTER Friday September 2, 2022
Newly launched at Kickstarter, the MIOPS Capsule Pro motorized pan and tilt system is “a great companion for time-lapse, panorama, 360-degree photography, and videography,” notes the company. It’s capable of capturing 360-degree shots, multi-row panoramas, and multi-axis videos, and can communicate with other MIOPS products (for instance the Slider and Capsule360) to give users the ability to create repeating multi-axis motion control movements, adds PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday September 2, 2022
Are changes to an accounting system to blame? Or is there some other reason to explain why the stock agency EyeEm hasn't been paying photographers? This week we learned that EyeEm may be in some
difficulty: Photo Archive News recently reported on "a growing issue concerning contributing stock photographers to photo agency EyeEm not being paid royalties." EyeEm owners Talenthouse told the
site that … Read the full Story >>
